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Back in an earlier life when I was working in the insurance business, our company used to do a lot of work in the community.

Our leadership group thought it was extremely important to give back to the communities that we served so all of our employees were encouraged — they actually almost made it imperative — to get involved either in a charity that our company did business with or one that was near and dear to our heart. They made it easier for us, giving us the time off from work to work with our chosen charity or providing “comp time” that we could use at a later date.

That is a lesson that I had picked up years before, as many of the sports teams I was on got involved...

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